http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/ Engadget Comments for Garmin and Kenwood team up to market nav-enabled car stereos http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/Mar 25th 2008 2:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/Mar 25th 2008 2:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/Mar 25th 2008 2:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/Mar 25th 2008 2:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/Mar 25th 2008 4:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/
P.S. This is the new Hotness. Can you say HDD for storage of person media. :)]]>Mar 25th 2008 3:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/Mar 25th 2008 3:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/Mar 25th 2008 3:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/Mar 25th 2008 3:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/
As far as redundancy goes, you could always use a RAID array or for the ultimate in el cheapo backup have three HD's connected via a Firewire 800, or other Hot pluggable SATA dock, and rotate them out every week like you would tapes. Presto, now you're got at least several months of backups just like our Grandfathers, Fathers and Sons had.... Yeah, I know, it was a terrible joke, but I gotta use 'em somewhere.]]>Mar 25th 2008 8:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/
Now, what I wanted to say was: I just hope it doesn't take a Limit Break to change a track.]]>Mar 25th 2008 8:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/Mar 25th 2008 3:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/Mar 25th 2008 3:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/
That combination is second to none, I really hope they can continue to make killer products]]>Mar 26th 2008 6:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/
That combination is second to none, I really hope they can continue to make killer products]]>Mar 26th 2008 6:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/Mar 25th 2008 5:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/Mar 25th 2008 7:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/Mar 25th 2008 8:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/]]>Mar 25th 2008 8:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/Mar 25th 2008 10:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/Mar 25th 2008 11:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/
Personally, I think this is so freaking smart on Kenwood's part. They stick to what they do best and they stand a better change of stealing away gps sales from Pioneer and Eclipse by letting Garmin, the gps leader in sales here in the US do what they do best. I've tried to use some of Pioneer's gps UI and it did make sense after a few minutes of playing around. But the Garmin stuff is so stupid proof any body can pick it up.]]>Mar 25th 2008 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/Mar 25th 2008 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/
On the car audio side, do any of these carputer programs have an ability to adjust crossover points? What are their eq's like? Do they have a decent audio processor? I really don't know so please let me know.

But to suggest a carputer against this, which last time I checked on their current model, was going for $1100 with a backup camera and bluetooth accessory at crutchfield. I don't know if you can get all the same functionality out of carputer for that price because you still have to buy a touchscreen. Even if you can get all the functionality and I don't know if the usuability will be as good. ]]>Mar 25th 2008 12:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/Mar 25th 2008 12:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/
The only real benefit over a portable unit I would see would be wheel sensors, accelerometers, altitude meter (for those flyovers), digital compass for dead reckoning. ]]>Mar 25th 2008 7:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/Mar 29th 2008 11:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/Mar 29th 2008 11:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/garmin-and-kenwood-team-up-to-market-nav-enabled-car-stereos/Apr 8th 2008 9:33AM